A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



SATYRID^; (continued) 



Parage aegeria, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Watford (Spencer) ; near Stub- 

 bing! Wood, Tring (Foulkes) ; Steven- 

 age (Matthews) 



Mr. Elliman reports that P. aegeria 

 is not at all abundant in the Tring 

 district, though Mr. Le Quesne and 

 he have taken it rather plentifully in 

 Hengrove Wood and towards Wen- 

 dover Hall on the Bucks side of the 

 county boundary. Mr. Matthews 

 finds it to be fairly common near 

 woods in the neighbourhood of Steven- 

 age 



megaera, L. St. Allans and Knebworth 



(A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Wat- 

 ford (Wigg) ; Tring (A. M. Brown) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; Railway bank, Oxhey (H. 

 Rowland-B ro wn) 



Satyrus semele, L. Haileybury Heath, 

 (School List). 



' I am told it may be taken on the 

 Harpenden road near Childwick ' 

 (Perkins, Transactions of the Watford 

 Natural History Society, ii. 68). This 

 neighbourhood is well known to me, 

 but I have failed to find S. semele in 

 the locality mentioned by Mr. Perkins 



Epinephile tithonus, L. St. Albans and 

 Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- 

 ton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; Letchmore Heath (H. Row- 

 land-Brown) 



janira, L. St. Albans, Elstree and Shen- 



ley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Hertford (J. Hopkinson) ; Wat- 

 ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) ; South-west Herts, 

 common (H. Rowland-Brown) 



hyperanthus, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 



Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Aldbury, in wood 

 above rifle butts (Cottam) ; Tring, 

 very abundant in most of the woods, 

 but apparently not straying far from 

 them (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Mat- 

 thews) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) ; 

 Royston (A. H. Kingston) 



SATYRID.: (continued') 



Ccenonympha pamphilus, L. This very 

 common species is widely distributed 

 through the county 



ERYCINIDJE 



Nemeobius lucina, L. Berkhamsted Com- 

 mon (G. H. Raynor, Newman's 

 Illustrated Natural History of British 

 Butterflies and Moths, 105); Dancer's 

 End, Tring (Hon. N. Charles Roth- 

 schild, Goodson) 



LYCJENID^E 



Thecla rubi, L. Hemel Hempstead (B. 

 Piffard) ; Aldbury (Cottam) ; on the 

 downs above Aldbury and near Pit- 

 stone, sparingly (Hon. L. Walter 

 Rothschild) ; Tring (Elliman) 



The last-named observer says that 

 T. rubi is usually abundant about 

 the beech woods both in Herts and 

 Bucks 



w-album, Kn. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Knebworth (Durrant) ; Hemel Hemp- 

 stead, ' in thousands ' (B. Piffard, 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 

 xviii. 68) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton) ; Haileybury, over a dozen 

 specimens caught on the Roman 

 road, 1900 (Stockley) ; Bishop 

 Stortford (Taylor, Mellows, the 

 latter observer recording the capture 

 of about two dozen in Long Meadow 

 in July, 1900) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild 

 informs me that Mr. Jopling took 

 three specimens at Hemel Hempstead 

 in 1899 



betulas, L. Norton Green Woods, about 



a mile south-west of Stevenage, not 

 common (Matthews) 



quercus, L. Bricket Wood, Radlett and 



Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Brown's Lane, in abundance, and 

 Cow Lane, near the station, Tring 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) ; Nor- 

 ton Green Woods (Matthews) ; Brox- 

 bourne Woods (Boyd) ; Oxhey Wood 

 (H. Rowland-Brown) 



This is the most abundant of the 

 Hertfordshire Hairstreaks. I have 

 beaten the larvae in considerable 

 numbers from young oak trees at 

 Bricket Wood 



Chrysophanus minimus, Fuesl. (alsus, F.). 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hertford (Ste- 

 phens) ; Letchworth (Knapp, Ento- 

 mologists' Weekly Intelligencer, ii. 155); 



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